Maddie Woda

Maddie Woda is an undergraduate at Columbia University, studying English. She is a member of the Columbia Review and has work or forthcoming work in South 85 Journal, ANGLES, and Flash Fiction Magazine.

My grandfather creates clocks, grandfather clocks, and it seems unpoetic now though it used to seem ironic and canny, before I knew what irony was, before I’d read Freud and swore off meat and milk on Mondays for the boys out to war. He converted his daughter’s doll room into a clock repair shop, gears and glass faces spilling out… Read more →